I can't find find a particular character, and i hope somebody here can help
me out.

1. The character i'm looking for looks like the one in this link, but the 田-part at the right is to be replaced by 木.
2. The context is a description of a Dutch-Chinese pocket dictionary.
词典共收荷兰语词目8500馀*。
Or rather (since the text is in traditional characters):
詞典共收荷蘭語詞目8500餘*。
The asterisk indicates the place of the missing character.

I tried everything within my possibilities, but so far in vain. You're my last hope (he wrote, not without a sense for drama .

2. The context is a description of a Dutch-Chinese pocket dictionary.词典共收荷兰语词目8500馀*。Or rather (since the text is in traditional characters):詞典共收荷蘭語詞目8500餘*。The asterisk indicates the place of the missing character.

没事儿, Frank ! It might be a wee bit easier to understand that the dictionary contains more than 8500 entries of Dutch words and phrases if the sentences quoted above are amended as follows :

On the one hand i'm a bit surprised that the character is simplified, on the other hand i started to wonder why i couldn't find the character in traditional dictionaries. Seems the radical of 條 is not 人, as i thought to be logical and obvious, but 木.
"Rare jongens, die Chinezen", as Obelix would say it...

The so-called «radicals» are a real can of worms ! Morohashi, for example, follows tradition and lists both «条» and «條» under «木» (6-14486 and 6-14859, resp), whereas the 《汉语大词典》 lists «条» under «夂» (3-1199), but «條» under «人» = «亻» (1-1478). It is for reasons like these that most Chinese dictionaries contain a «难检字表», i e, a list of graphs that are difficult to look up. Reasonably enough, «条» is to be found in the list in vol 3 of the 《汉语大词典》. Obelix may have been right....